Floor foe cattle oaes



(No Model.)

P. M. GANDA. FLQOR FOR CATTLE GARS.

Patented Dec. 22, `1891.

W/T/VESSES.'

xs Varens co., Fn

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND MORA CANDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLOOR FOR CATTLE-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,751, dated December 22, 1891.

Application iiled March l2, 1891. Serial No. 384,775. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom 2115 may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND MORA CANDA, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Floors for Cattle-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

l The object of the invention is to provide a cattle-car` the door whereof will give a proper footing to the cattle and in which the raised surfaces provided in the floor for this purpose will be enabled to withstand the tendency to be broken off by the cattle.

The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the igures.

Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section of a portion of a car provided with my iinproved flooring, andA Fig. 2 is a perspective V view of a portion of such flooring.

The cattle-car shown is provided with suitable gates or partitions B, Ways B therefor,

depressions a', as shown. The alternating raised surfaces and depressions thus formed enable the cattle to get a proper footing, and as the said'raised portions are formed integrally with the flooring-boards they will effectually withstand the tendency to be broken off by the cattle. The iiooring thus formed is superior to separate cleats secured to the iiooring, as the latter are more readily broken off, necessitating frequent repairs.

In practice, as is well known, cattle-cars are employed in one direction for conveying general freight, and this has invariably resulted in mutilating and tearing offl the floor-cleats, exposing splinters and nails, which injured the cattle on subsequent trips to an extentA that the railroads forbid the employment of cleats. This left the floor without the necessary footing for the cattle, and when standing on wet floors in a moving car the animals, in the absence of the proper footing', are almost as liable to injury as formerly.

My improved floor insures the proper footing and withstands the rough treatment to which it is necessarily subjected by the freight, and will therefore be seen to be an important improvement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cattle-car having the door thereof constructed of alternating high and low boards, forming spaced raised parts integral with the flooring-boards, substantially as described.

FERDINAND MORA CANDA.

Vitnesses:

C. SEDGWICK, E. M. CLARK. 

